COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS:
Shadow Lands & Out of La Negrura
Out of La Negrura/Out of Blackness
in the Bronx:
A Choreographic Collaboration Across Diaspora
features NYC-based dance artists/choreographers:
Sita Frederick
Ana "Rokafella" Garcia
Marion Ramirez
Edited by Naeema Jamiliah Torres, the Out of La Negrura documentary reveals how the artists collaborated to create a new performance work that explored Caribbean and Latina-American experiences through dance.
Supported by Pregones/PRTT Theater and BAAD!
Supported by Pregones/PRTT Theater and BAAD!
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The documentary offers a rare view into the labor of dance and its potential as a transformative agent through dialogue and collaboration.
- Alicia Díaz, Co-Artistic Director, Agua Dulce Dance Theater: Associate Professor of Dance, University of Richmond
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This documentary inspires through its loving attention to three artists' genuine practice of collaboration.
- Daniel Alexander Jones, Performance Artist, Writer: Associate Professor, Theatre, Fordham University
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This project uncovers the often concealed voices of artists of color and the deep well of practice, theory, history, and innovation they call upon to make their work.
- Kayhan Irani, Writer/Performer/Social Engagement
SHADOW LANDS
Caridad De La Luz & Cynthia Paniagua
Shadow Lands is a public act of private thoughts that reconstruct fragmented experiences through an ongoing process of introspection to act as a creative healing of violence against women. Created by poet Caridad De La Luz/La Bruja and dancer Cynthia Paniagua.
Musical director: Jorge Castro
Performances: Pregones Theater (premiere 2013), BAAD!/Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture studio, Casita Maria Center for the Arts and Education, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, BronxWorks Betances Center
photos (c) 2013 G Melendez
Shadow Lands
Shadow Lands partners artistic giants Caridad De La Luz/La Bruja and Cynthia Paniagua who - through their use of movement, humor and drama - honor the audience in their portrayals of strong, resilient women. The audience "shadows" the artists on their journeys from despair to triumph - Maria Diaz, audience member
“Shadow Lands” fue, más que una exploración creativa de historias y memorias personales, un espejo de los contextos en los cuales obrevivimos y nos movemos cada una de nosotras. Sin embargo, este trabajo interpretado por La Bruja y Cynthia Paniagua también fue un retrato de nosotras mismas… de cómo nos construyen y cómo nos construimos… de las expectativas que arrecian y transforman nuestros cuerpos… de los dolores a los que nos enfrentamos… y de las experiencias que vivimos, a veces voluntariamente, y en ocasiones de forma impuesta - Marielys Burgos Meléndez, Independent Artist/Researcher, Feminist, Writer (former Legal Intercessor in Domestic Violence)